PL (B-TECH Computer Science Engineering 4th)

Section A: Introduction:

 Syntactic and semantic rules of a Programming language, Characteristics of a good

programming language, Programming language translators compiler & interpreters ,

Elementary data types – data objects, variable & constants, data types, Specification &

implementation of elementary data types, Declarations ,type checking & type conversions ,

Assignment & initialization, Numeric data types, enumerations, Booleans & characters.

Section B: Structured data objects, Subprograms and Programmer Defined Data Type :

Structured data objects & data types , specification & implementation of structured data

types, Declaration & type checking of data structure ,vector & arrays, records Character

strings, variable size data structures , Union, pointer & programmer defined data objects, sets,

files.

 Evolution of data type concept, abstraction, encapsulation & information hiding,

Subprograms, type definitions, abstract data types.

Section C: Sequence Control and Data Control:

Implicit & explicit sequence control, sequence control within expressions, sequence control

within statement, Subprogram sequence control: simple call return, recursive subprograms,

Exception & exception handlers, co routines, sequence control. Names & referencing

environment, static & dynamic scope, block structure, Local data & local referencing

environment, Shared data: dynamic & static scope. Parameter & parameter transmission

schemes.

Section D: Storage Management, Programming languages:

Major run time elements requiring storage ,programmer and system controlled storage

management & phases , Static storage management , Stack based storage management, Heap

storage management ,variable & fixed size elements.Introduction to procedural, nonprocedural

,structured, functional and object oriented programming language, Comparison of

C & C++ programming languages.